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In pictures: The 2014 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest

National Geographic is inviting photographers from around the world to enter the 2014 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. The grand-prize winner will receive an eight-day National Geographic expedition to Alaska for two on-board the National Geographic Sea Lion or National Geographic Sea Bird. The deadline for submissions is Monday, June 30, at 12 p.m. EDT. Eligible contestants can visit their website
to submit photographs in any or all of four categories: Travel Portraits, Outdoor Scenes, Sense of Place and Spontaneous Moments. The entry fee is $15 (USD) per photo, and there is no limit to the number of submissions per entrant. Here is a selection of this year's entries: Above - Divine Makeover by Mahesh Balasubramanian
. 'Taken during The Mayana Soora Thiruvizha festival which takes place every March in the small village of Kaveripattinam, the day after Mahashivarathiri (The great night of Shiva). The festival is devoted to Angalamman, a fierce guardian deity worshipped widely in Southern India'